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In the Indonesian media, nicknames are sometimes given after the country's name to create a lyrical atmosphere, and some of the nicknames are Indonesian translations of common names from abroad and others are given from Indonesia's own point of view to show how Indonesia views the rest of the world.

Although unfamiliar words such as Karantina (quarantine) and Isolasi (quarantine) were seen and heard in the media about the corona disaster, the words used are similar to each other even though the news sources are different, and if you learn Indonesian words related to current affairs, it will be easier to use your associative memory if you learn them according to the themes.

It is often said that it is important to practice a foreign language and that if you move to an environment where you are forced to use it, you will inevitably learn to speak it.

The fact that Indonesian is a romanized reading that is read as it is written, and words are not attached to each other and pronounced differently, means that the words are highly independent.

It is said that Indonesian is the easiest language in the world to learn, and the fact that many Japanese living in Indonesia can learn Indonesian conversation in a short period of time makes it clear that Indonesian is easier for Japanese to learn than English.

In my daily life, I am almost exclusively speaking Japanese and Indonesian, so when I am in a situation where I have to explain to a customer in English, I am usually stuck for words and speak unintelligible English. If you are staying in Indonesia for a long period of time, I'm sure many of you have this problem.

Examples of changes in the old Indonesian script are Soeharto (oe changed to u), Jogjakarta (j changed to y, Tjinta (tj changed to c) Moesjawarah (sj changed to sy), Djakarta (Dj changed to j) and Njonja (Nj changed to Ny).

In Indonesian, there is a major rule for verbs: "me/men/mem/meng/meny" with the prefix "me/men/mem/meng/meny" is active, "di" without a prefix is passive, and "kan" (with some exceptions) is added as a suffix when the object is taken.

Passive is used only in the third (S+V+O), fourth (S+V+O+O), and fifth (S+V+O+O) sentences of the five basic sentence forms of English grammar with an object.

If the antecedent happens to be a place, time, reason, or method, it's a relational adverb, otherwise it's called a relational pronoun, and a preposition + relational pronoun is replaced by a relational adverb.

In Indonesian presentations, daring to pronounce it slowly to pause and think about the next line of dialogue is useful for conjunctions such as dan kemudian and maupun and prepositional phrases with secara and dengan.

Indonesian prefixes include pe, which makes a noun, and me, which makes a verb; if the initials are (P disappear, B) then pem(mem), if (S disappear) then peny(meny), if (T disappear, C, D, J) then pen(men), otherwise it is peng(meng) or the original pe(me).